Rain and such

[VladTepes]

Just had a big storm and hail here in Brissie CBD.
There was so much water I could look out the window and it was a total white out ! Wouldn't even know the next building was there !

I hope the trains don't stop AGAIN.

Now BOM shows the storm headed directly to my home !

[VladTepes]

Yep, trains have stopped. AGAIN.

[rar110]

Biggest hail I can remember seeing. I seriously thought it might break windows.

[V8Ian]

Lots of wind, brief heavy rain and now power here. :(

[UncleHo]

The wife has just received pics of a couple of friends cars with smashed windscreens,both in the CBD area I think :(

[JDNSW]

Just on the phone to a friend lives 100m from Archerfield. Tells me there are dozens of planes on their backs there, and all the main roads in the area are gridlocked and stopped with numerous power lines down across roads, and at least one semi blown onto its side. They have no power and have been told a minimum of twelve hours before they get it back. He had golfball sized hail and the garage got badly flooded but otherwise no problems with the house.

John

[scarry]

I had a late call to Wacol,the van was changing lanes by itself at 80k's:(

Half the traffic was doing 40k's,holding everyone up:mad:

Wind and rain was unbelievable,no hail though.

At home not much happened at all,bit of rain,that was it.

[p38arover]

Yep, trains have stopped. AGAIN.

No wonder! I saw a pic of a railway station, er, dock.

[d2dave]

Just had a big storm and hail here in Brissie CBD.
There was so much water I could look out the window and it was a total white out ! Wouldn't even know the next building was there !

I hope the trains don't stop AGAIN.

Now BOM shows the storm headed directly to my home !

Two and a half hours since this post. Haven't heard from you. Are you still with us? Is your house still there?:)

[Ranga]

Copped a hiding on the way home. Luckily I was in the wife's Subaru due to my motorcycle being off the road and me unable to ride it until I recover from an operation.

Basically got chased by the storm all the way from work at Archerfield, until I got caught in a traffic jam on the Riverside Expressway in the CBD.

Rear screen smashed, both side mirrors smashed, and large dents all over the roof, left hand side and bonnet. I'm no assessor, but wouldn't be surprised if it's a write-off. I'll get some photos of the dents in the morning when the car is dry.

Both the car in front and the car beside me also had smashed rear-windscreens.

I thought it was quite exciting, and certainly the wildest storm and biggest hail I can ever recall. Except the 3.5 hours it took to get home (normally an hour trip).

[nugge t]

Was unreal. Saw it from the 9th floor of the Mater whilst visiting my wife. Tennis ball size hail coming in horizontally smashing into the windows.


I left at 6.20 and the whole area was still gridlocked.

[incisor]

Was unreal. Saw it from the 9th floor of the Mater whilst visiting my wife.

Hope all is well....

[BMKal]

Just saw pictures of this on the ABC news over here. Some pretty heavy damage in some areas - hope everyone over there is OK.

Both Perth & Kalgoorlie are known for the occasional pretty savage hails storms - but I don't think I've ever seen anything as bad over here as what I just saw on TV.

[rar110]

Copped a hiding on the way home. Luckily I was in the wife's Subaru due to my motorcycle being off the road and me unable to ride it until I recover from an operation. Basically got chased by the storm all the way from work at Archerfield, until I got caught in a traffic jam on the Riverside Expressway in the CBD. Rear screen smashed, both side mirrors smashed, and large dents all over the roof, left hand side and bonnet. I'm no assessor, but wouldn't be surprised if it's a write-off. I'll get some photos of the dents in the morning when the car is dry. Both the car in front and the car beside me also had smashed rear-windscreens. I thought it was quite exciting, and certainly the wildest storm and biggest hail I can ever recall. Except the 3.5 hours it took to get home (normally an hour trip).

Very sorry to hear that Ranga. I parked the FFRR at Cannon Hill railway today and fully expected to find it similarly destroyed. I was stoked to find it unscathed.

[bsperka]

Most probably the biggest hail storm in Brisbane since mid 1980s. That one broke windows in high rises, trains etc. Massive damage but nearly 30 years ago.

[UncleHo]

Just finished getting our second bout of heavy rain,missed the first storm, watched it pass over a little to the west of us headed North,we just got heavy rain out of it for about 10 minutes.

[JDNSW]

Most probably the biggest hail storm in Brisbane since mid 1980s. That one broke windows in high rises, trains etc. Massive damage but nearly 30 years ago.

News last night showed broken windows in high rise buildings, didn't say just where.

John

[bsperka]

News last night showed broken windows in high rise buildings, didn't say just where.

John

In 1985 my wife's work colleague's new car had the tappet cover profile impressed on the bonnet because of hail, (parked in Barry Pde), TAB building had people under desks because of the damaged windows, so it was a bit nasty. Basically, hail the size of small promo footballs hit the city. 2 or 3 storms combined, a couple of updraughts to melt the hail together into ridiculous sized projectiles and damage ensued.

[The ho har's]

We were watching it on the radar and Dark red was heading straight for us. As you can imagine trucks had mattresses were placed on bonnets etc. The 6x6 was parked behind the shed to help protect it :( And then it went west, sorry Archerfield/Brisbane:( We only got a good drenching of rain :cool:

Mrs hh:angel:

[Barefoot Dave]

Glad to hear no-one was injured badly, so far.
A workmate of my wife told her about the alert. She hightailed it shortly after.
He left 10 minutes later, got caught in the open and his car looks like an angry gorilla got nasty!
My love almost made it home before taking shelter in an overpass to be sure. Unscathed but shaken.
Was pleasantly surprised when a m'cyclist also pulled in for shelter and proceeded to check on the other drivers! I salute you sir!

Would be interested to know if the tunnels became log jammed with cars not wanting to exit...

Still growling references to the 'Gap storms'. That cell continued up the northern suburbs, smashed Narangba, D'Bay and onto Bribie. We got 250 jobs locally from it!

[VladTepes]

Well I got away with it. No damage to cars or home(that I know of at the moment anyway) as a result of the storms although maybe one possible leak at home.

The cheese'n'kisses had to drive from bracken Ridge to town to pick me up and then home again which obviously took hours! It seems a lot of the hail was dumped on boondall so was largely exhausted by the time it got to bracken ridge.

Sorry to hear you had damage to the subie ranga. Maybe time to grab a FL2 while everyone is upgrading to disco sports.

[Debacle]

This was Fortitude Valley Station. Not photoshopped.

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It was a fun night, I was stuck on some units at Cooparoo for almost five hours. But at least I was getting paid for the privilege.

Unfortunately that was one of the rare days I decided to drive the Disco to work. I haven't had much of a chance to look at it in daylight but it was resembling a golf ball in some places when I got back to sign off.

[scarry]

Most probably the biggest hail storm in Brisbane since mid 1980s. That one broke windows in high rises, trains etc. Massive damage but nearly 30 years ago.

i remember that one in the mid eighties,i was driving back to the workshop at Eagle Farm,it broke all the windows on one side of the work panel van,and both tail lights.Hail was piled up a meter against the fences.

I was badly bruised on my arms,holding a plastic folder up trying to stop the hail hitting my face:(

Eventually when i could see better,and things had died down, i started driving and drove into a deep pool of water,the van stalled,i opened the door to spray some CRC over the engine,and water flowed into the van,it was freezing as there was a lot of hail floating on the water.

The worse storm i had ever been in.

[bob10]

That storm in the 80's, my Mum & Dad were in town, cleaning an office block. Sister at home, the storm hit, lost the roof, ceiling, she had to hide under the kitchen table , with the dog. Bob

[Bytemrk]

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

Equally glad my flight got out of Brisbane shortly before the storm. :angel:

Ranga... that sucks badly, but had you been on the bike, it would have sucked more....hope it doesn't take too long to get repaired.... I'd imagine that business will be brisk for some.

[Debacle]

i remember that one in the mid eighties,i was driving back to the workshop at Eagle Farm,it broke all the windows on one side of the work panel van,and both tail lights.Hail was piled up a meter against the fences.

I was badly bruised on my arms,holding a plastic folder up trying to stop the hail hitting my face:(

Eventually when i could see better,and things had died down, i started driving and drove into a deep pool of water,the van stalled,i opened the door to spray some CRC over the engine,and water flowed into the van,it was freezing as there was a lot of hail floating on the water.

The worse storm i had ever been in.

I remember that one, it was on my 19th birthday. Went out on the town and ended up in hospital with a broken arm.

[Ranga]

SWMBOs Subaru Outback was officially written off today by Shannons. Forgot to ask about buy-back, as I wasn't really intending to anyway, but I'm now curious what they would have said.

[Barefoot Dave]

Struth Ranga, what a bugger!

Might be some real bargains at the upcopming auctions though
I hear they are pretty quick to write off vehicles. Is that what you found?
True also that you drive in get assessed and if a write-off have the keys taken off you right there?

[Ranga]

Mine was towed to the assessor, so just had to wait for the phone call. The original rep told me to remove all personal belongings, as a write-off would mean I wouldn't see the car again.

I had agreed value, so the conversation with the assessor was quite amicable. I got the feeling that the assessor was pleased I took it so well. I imagine there's plenty of people receiving unwelcome quotes on their write-off.

I thought about buying it back or buying another hail damaged vehicle, but not sure they're actually that much of a bargain.